Welcome to the Cookswell Jikos blog. The following posts and pictures are our latest updates, sales offers, recipes and prices from the home of the Original Kenya Ceramic Jiko, Charcoal Oven and Kinyanjui Barrel Kilns. We encourage you to; Invest in tree planting!
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Small scale rotational branch charcoal production for pasture/woodlot management and to supply the cookstoves, ovens and space heaters at the wonderful Sirikoi Lodge.

Also known as elephant charcoal :)

In less than 15 years of protection - this area went from maize farms back to a wild yellow fever forest - to manage the forests around the stables they prune the branches for woodfuel. If you know about acacia thorns you know that getting the thorny branches can be a tricky business, but with a bit of help from their elephant friends......

Debarked, de-leafed and pre-cut twigs and branches :)

In action!

But of course with a bit of experiance one can always manually prune the branches.

Make a clean cut in order the help the tree heal over.

A pair of 2 year old large charcoal kilns carbonizing the sun dried branches - these make about a bag of charcoal every day.

The safari charcoal ovens ready to bake!

And when you are done cooking - this is one use for the ashes from your jiko and if you can get it, some elephant dung to plant more tree's!

Mix the ash and elephant poop to a 1:1 ratio with some water.

Try to use seeds of tree species that would naturally be found in areas with elephants - these shown are acacia seyal and juniperus procera (ceder)

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About Cookswell Jikos

Cookswell Jikos is a small but growing family owned Kenyan business. We provide our customers with professional charcoal and wood fueled stoves, portable convection ovens, BBQ's, smokers, space heaters and charcoal making kilns.

The designs continue to improve with over 18 years with constant consumer feedback.

We proudly include a free packet of acacia tree seeds with every stove and oven purchased to further the goal of making charcoal a sustainable energy source. We also sell a wide variety of indigenous tree seeds and seedlings with our partner, The Woodlands 2000 Trust http://www.woodlands2000trust.org/ for planting around Kenya.

Cookswell Jikos promotes the sustainable production, management and processing of wood fuels as one of the many renewable energy resources for East Africa’s cooking needs.

We also make innovative, simple to use portable, mobile kilns to make your own free charcoal at home from branches, twigs, maize cobs, coconut husks and other woody biomass.

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